Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stanford University, which has a comparable number of diners, uses predominantly parttime student employees; Harvard employs only 60 undergraduates out of 505 workers. Stanford pays many of its part-time student servers with free food, both helping them get through college cheaply and leaving them unaffected by the increasing cost of food. Stanford occasionally, serves its diners steak, frequently fried chicken, always well cooked vegetables. The board rate at Stanford is $12.50 a week; the rate at Harvard is $12.25 a week...
...cost of a thorough investigation by competent experts has been estimated at $5000. An item this size should certainly be a worthwhile investment in a business venture which handles a $2,000,000 gross annual business, even if there is little chance of prospective increase in efficiency. The Dining Halls department has no competition, and consequently no incentive for betterment; a benevolent monopoly, above all other kinds of business organizations, should spend considerable sums on efficiency investigations...
...Battered Chevie. Only 300 miles from Caracas, Oscar's red Ford plunged down an embankment. When Juan came along, he stopped to help his brother get back on the road. It took so long that it cost him his chance of winning the race; besides, his own car was limping and had to be towed, thus violating one of the rules. One day last week, with 100,000 citizens of Caracas anxiously waiting at the finish line of the Gran Premio, a battered, fenderless Chevie coupe rolled down the Avenida San Martin. Out stepped Domingo Marim...
...single leg, but he had won the first section of the Gran Premio and its first prize of 114,000 pesos ($23,450). Said Domingo, chewing on a big cigar: "I kept my eyes on the road, that's all." The race had cost ten lives (one driver, two mechanics, seven bystanders), left nearly 100 drivers stranded along the road, practically ruined 138 good automobiles. What cars were left would now be shipped to Lima, Peru, where the second and shorter section of the Gran Premio, back over the mountains to Luján, near Buenos Aires, would begin...
...have more than offset the increase." But the New York Times thought BLS had let go a low blow. It thought wages and purchasing power should be compared with those of January, 1941 (the base date of the Little Steel formula). "We find," said the Times, "that while the cost of living has risen 73%, average hourly earnings are up 95%, average weekly earnings...